Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers

Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by bogomipz on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:09PM (#15393990)

"Also there is evidence that e-cigs deliver some toxic stuff of their own such as formaldehyde (a known carcinogen), nitrosamines (linked to cancer) and lead (a neurotoxin). Though the toxicant levels of e-cigs may be “9–450 times lower than in cigarette smoke,” as this study suggests, levels of formaldehyde andmetalshave been found to be comparable to or higher than those found in conventional cigarettes.*Silicate particles, which are a cause of lung disease, have also been found in e-cigarette vapors."

source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/e-cigs-and-second...

I'm not sure why you consider the OP's statement to be bold as I don't think there are many instances where ingesting chemicals into the lungs is considered healthy.

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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by gnaritas on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:17PM (#15394077)

There's a whole lot of may and might in all that; but you have to see it from the perspective of a smoker, not a non-smoker. It's clearly vastly safer than smoking. Any smoker who switched can tell you how they're starting to be able to breath well again, the smokers cough is going away, the lungs feel better and not full of shit. Yes, eciggs may still be more dangerous than nothing, but smokers aren't approaching it from doing nothing.

Eciggs make quitting smoking vastly easier, and eciggs are easier to quit than cigarettes. I routinely go half a day without hitting my ecigg, that never happened with smokes.

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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by bogomipz on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:26PM (#15394176)

>"There's a whole lot of may and might in all that; but you have to see it from the perspective of a smoker, not a non-smoker."

I was responding the the OP's statement that saying e-cigarrets were unhealthy was a bold claim.

There are always things that might be considered less harmful but that does not mean they are considered healthy.

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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by gnaritas on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:30PM (#15394211)

Might and may are one thing, the OP said definitely, and that's a bold claim as we don't yet know if it's definitely anything. Had he even said probably that'd be ok, but definitely, no, that's not supportable.

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Re:Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers by bogomipz on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:01PM (#15396164)

So your contention is that inhaling propylene glycol into your lungs might not be unhealthy?

"In its product safety assessment for propylene glycol, the Dow Chemical Company recommends individuals avoid inhaling the chemical"[1]

[1] https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-a244/

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